Rebecca M. Riordan

The popular STEP BY STEP approach provides hands-on guidance to beginning-level programmers, covering key features and fundamental techniques to accelerate their productivity with ADO.NET 2.0 and .NET Framework 2.0. The companion CD includes data sets and sample code for all exercises.

Key Book Benefits:

• Provides step-by-step guidance on how to use ADO.NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005 to create smart-client and Web applications.
• Features easy-to-follow, logically planned lessons, with necessary data sets and additional code samples on the CD.
• STEP BY STEP is ideal for anyone with a fundamental understanding of computer programming.

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 can dramatically reduce the time required to bring e-commerce, data warehousing, and line-of-business applications to market. With support for XML and HTTP standards, powerful performance enhancements, and advanced management and tuning features to automate routine tasks and lower costs, SQL Server 2000 offers scalability for the most demanding applications. MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2000 PROGRAMMING STEP BY STEP, written by an experienced database developer and author, shows readers familiar with Microsoft Access, Oracle, and other relational databases how SQL Server works and how to make it work for them. Replete with examples and exercises, this book is a vital resource for the thousands of users who need the powerful data-analysis and knowledge-management capabilities of SQL Server 2000 to keep pace with the business Internet.